Tuvok board

[metalboss44]

Im in the process of collecting sounds from the character TUVOK from Star Trek voyager. Would you be willing to make a soundboard with a similar style to the picard board? There won't be as many sounds but it should be more usable than picard with more business oriented sounds. Whattyathink?


edit: And heres the latest board

<a href="http://www.jackulator.com/memberBoards/metalboss44/Tuvok/Tuvok1-3.swf" target="_blank"><a href="http://www.jackulator.com/memberBoards/metalboss44/Tuvok/Tuvok1-3.swf" target="_blank">http://www.jackulator.com/memberBoards/metalboss44/Tuvok/Tuvok1-3.swf</a></a>


http://www.jackulator.com/memberBoards/metalboss44/Tuvok/Tuvok1-3.swf

[jackulator]

sure man - as always, if people give me the audio files I'll make the boards

[metalboss44]

nearly done, just organizing the sounds into questions/statements/etc

[metalboss44]

Here are the sounds

http://www.jackulator.com/metalboss44/TUVOK SOUNDS.zip

I have organized the sounds into the following category's

Investigation, questions
Greetings, Yes, No, Bye's
Food, business related
People
Places
Remorse
Statements
Threats, Comebacks

Lotta funny quotes in there, I must have gone through a dozen episodes. He's got alot of good lines for questioning. I also made a ton of custom business sounds.

[metalboss44]

http://www.jackulator.com/metalboss44/Tuvok 1.1.zip

[jackulator]

I sent you a pm about this before I started posting calls earlier this afternoon but maybe you didn't get it - I spent an hour recreating the picard board format (accidentally deleted picard's fla file a couple of months ago...) since I remembered you said you wanted it in that style, but when I finished and was about to start making buttons out of your audio files I noticed they weren't named properly

I prefer them to have each new word capitalized and no spaces - it looks really sloppy having spaces and all lower case - I'm not gonna go through and rename all of them, and I'm sure you don't want to, but you probably should - remember the longer the phrase the more space it takes up - plus it just looks bad

let me know if you're gonna rename them and give me a new zip file or if you just want me to make the buttons out of the mp3s you've got now

one other thing - I noticed you still don't fade your mp3s in at the beginnings and out at the ends - when you don't sometimes there's a loud popping sounds when an mp3 starts or stops in Flash - so even though it's tedious, I fade in/out every single mp3 on every board I make - and it's not the kind of thing I automate either - because each mp3 is unique - and you've got to fade the actual waveform in when the amplitude starts - not just an amount like the first 50 milliseconds or something - you could batch process them to all be faded in at 50ms and out at length-50ms, but on any of them where the waveform doesn't really start until after that, or conversely, if the audio ends abruptly before length-50ms, you'll still get the popping sounds... so it's kind of necessary - that is, unless you don't mind the popping - I'm kind of a perfectionith        thh..

EDIT: it just occurred to me that maybe you don't know how it is that I make buttons - I basically just import all of the mp3s into the library of an fla file, then using a macro I copy/paste the title of the mp3 onto the stage and convert the text into a button, then use another macro to apply the actionscript - but the point is, the text of the button comes directly from the name of the mp3 - so if I want the button text to look a certain way, the mp3s have got to be named that way...

[metalboss44]

god damn boy, I did get it & I renamed the sounds, & sent you 2 PM's about it in addition to posting the ZIP in this thread

http://www.jackulator.com/metalboss44/Tuvok 1.1.zip

Do ya get me sweetheart?

[jackulator]

oh 

sorry about that - I'm downloading them now

[metalboss44]

WE ALL MAKE MISTAKES

Best that I can do is apologize.

[jackulator]

ahhh - now that's more like it  

[jackulator]

haha - his voice sounds so - almost like chris hanson - very nerdy and enunciated - kind of like the movie Idiocracy "pompous and faggy" haha

[metalboss44]

Hahaha exactly.

I tried to keep away from the technological psychobabble like the picard board and focused more on investigation questions and business related questions.

[metalboss44]

What do you think of this look?

[jackulator]

very cool - you're not gonna believe this - I was toying with the notion of yellow earlier when I was remaking the picard board - you know - so it wouldn't be exactly like captain stew - plus it stands out better - I like it! I'm gonna go with that

[jackulator]

by the way - how the hell did you make that? photoshop?

[metalboss44]

Photoshop 7

[jackulator]

dammit - I thought maybe I sent you a copy of the .fla file I used to make the new picard board - the one with the blue ovals - not the first crappy two-page one

I think I did though - you should check for me - I'd love to have that back if you can find it

I accidentally deleted my copy after my PC shit the bed - the only other place I had it backed up was in a folder called 'STEWART' on the jackulator server - when I made the jon stewart board and went to upload it, without thinking I created a new folder called 'STEWART', and in doing so deleted the contents of the old one....

[metalboss44]

I only have .SWF files for the Picard board here, sorry. 

[jackulator]

big sigh... oh well. I guess I'll have to make the damn thing over again - I tried decompiling it with sothink, but when I opened the fla all I got for the buttons was strange characters and jibberish - I don't know if that has to do with having published the swf file encrypted or protected, or if my version of sothink sucks

I tried out a different program earlier, but it couldn't extract the fla properly either 

[jackulator]

ok - it took me a lot longer than you probably thought it would - and it's not done yet, but I was trying to settle on a new button technology that uses arrays, instance names and text boxes to launch mp3s - and this is the first board I've done it on in such a simple and organized way

<a href="http://www.jackulator.com/memberBoards/metalboss44/Tuvok/Tuvok1-1.swf" target="_blank"><a href="http://www.jackulator.com/memberBoards/metalboss44/Tuvok/Tuvok1-1.swf" target="_blank">http://www.jackulator.com/memberBoards/metalboss44/Tuvok/Tuvok1-1.swf</a></a>

here's the download of just the swf file - of course you metal have all of the sounds - just make sure they're all in one folder - and that the swf is in there.  you know the drill

http://www.jackulator.com/memberBoards/metalboss44/Tuvok/Tuvok1-1.swf

[metalboss44]

Those buttons look great, i didn't actually think you'd have a working board up tonight, thanks! Interesting idea with the randomize button.

i think theres a bit of lag, when you click one sound, and then another it 'waits' for the sound to be done.

other than that it's coming along nicely.

[jackulator]

the lag thing happen with the files on your hard drive? it shouldn't - if you're talking about clicking the buttons on the Internet - it's because the audio file has to download before it will play - if the files are all on your hard drive it should all be instantaneous

[jackulator]

ok - I did a lot of work today working on an amazing new board design concept - but I did some sorting

I apologize for something with the format - basically I decided that since I no longer needed a separate button for each thing on the stage, I no longer needed separate mouse-release button inside the pop-up windows either - but coming up with the schema to create them on the stage is a little tricky - so in a couple of the pop-up windows there are buttons far away from the other ones - I may have to just hard code a few scenarios specific to this loader or that in a few spots because writing a perfect code for every scenario would take longer - there's only a few special cases where the code I've made doesn't place the pop-up buttons well

so basically, this new design - just like there is no longer a separate button for every loader or mp3-playing button, there is no longer a separate frame within the swf for every pop-up page - the soundboard is one frame - and the mp3s are all organized into arrays for categories - if there's only one mp3 for a given category, the button will still be a pop-up, but there'll just be that one mouse-release button in the pop-up window - that way down the road if you make more mp3s for something, it's all ready to go - you just add the mp3 names into the proper array

I don't know if that made any sense - but just take it for a spin

one thing though - I ran out of mp3s for the business section at the top so the last column is all the same mp3

http://www.jackulator.com/memberBoards/metalboss44/Tuvak/Tuvok1-3.swf

<a href="http://www.jackulator.com/memberBoards/metalboss44/Tuvok/Tuvok1-3.swf" target="_blank"><a href="http://www.jackulator.com/memberBoards/metalboss44/Tuvok/Tuvok1-3.swf" target="_blank">http://www.jackulator.com/memberBoards/metalboss44/Tuvok/Tuvok1-3.swf</a></a>

[metalboss44]

Whoa, thats a huge improvement jackulator, thanks!

I'm going to make a few calls with it tonight, I'm glad that it's much more straight forward than the Picard board.

[metalboss44]

I update the original post


If anyone has any questions or problems with the board feel free to ask me or Jackulator.


I hope to add more lines of dialog to the board sometime soon. I've gotten great response on youtube from my calls so far.